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Other Realms => Game Room => Topic started by: mathgrant on October 13, 2011, 02:16:37 AM
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Coffee is a two-player board game published by nestorgames (http://www.nestorgames.com/coffee_detail.html) and available for play on igGameCenter (http://www.iggamecenter.com/?aid=14770). The rules (http://www.iggamecenter.com/info/en/coffee.html?aid=14770) are simple (the objective is to get a number of your pieces in a row), but having your legal moves dictated by the orientation of your opponent's last piece makes the game very challenging. As such, I would like to see who is the best Coffee player on Crimson Flag.
To participate in the tournament, you will need to create an account (http://www.iggamecenter.com/loginreq.php?lang=en&aid=14770) on igGameCenter, and post your igGameCenter screen name in this thread (I'm mathgrant). (Edit: The tournament is only open to people who joined Crimson Flag before I made this post. ]:P) I will decide on the tournament format when I know how many players are playing, but be forewarned that you will need to coordinate with your opponents to make sure you are on igGameCenter at the same time. (Use Crimson Flag's chat room or private messages for this.) I also can't guarantee that there will be prizes, unless Virmir is willing to do some drawing for free, as I have no prize budget right now. But at least we'll know who the best Coffee player in the community is! ]:P
Players:
Jay (BlueBabyDragon)
Kenku (Kenku)
mathgrant (mathgrant)
Nacyl (Nacyl)
Trask (Trask)
Round 1 games:
Jay vs Kenku (0-1)
Jay vs mathgrant (0-1)
Jay vs Nacyl (0-1)
Jay vs Trask (1-0)
Kenku vs Jay (0-1)
Kenku vs mathgrant (0-1)
Kenku vs Nacyl (1-0)
Kenku vs Trask (1-0)
mathgrant vs Jay (1-0)
mathgrant vs Kenku (1-0)
mathgrant vs Nacyl (1-0)
mathgrant vs Trask (1-0)
Nacyl vs Jay (1-0)
Nacyl vs Kenku (0-1)
Nacyl vs mathgrant (0-1)
Nacyl vs Trask (1-0)
Trask vs Jay (0-1)
Trask vs Kenku (0-1)
Trask vs mathgrant (0-1)
Trask vs Nacyl (0-1)
Round 1 scores:
Jay (3-5)
Kenku (5-3)
mathgrant (8-0)
Nacyl (4-4)
Trask (0-8)
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I'm just making a short little post to say I'll join!
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Trask accepts this challenge, with shinies! okay not really, but I accept nonetheless! [:)
IGGameCenter Username: Trask
If you need anything else, poke me. [;)
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I'll give it a shot.
name is Nacyl.
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May as well throw my hand into this. Names Kenku. Btw, will there be a LITS tournament at some point?
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May as well throw my hand into this. Names Kenku. Btw, will there be a LITS tournament at some point?
That's a capital idea! It'd help publicize the game more and, if there are any kinks I need to iron out, help me see them. :P But it'd involve more work than a Coffee tourney, because I'd need to teach people how to use igGameCenter's Sandbox instead of the site having a devoted Battle of LITS table. :)
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well Im interested if one happened.
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I don't know if one will happen any time soon, but I added Battle of LITS to the list of games people want to see on igGameCenter (http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/43699/item/1865708#item1865708). Coffee is on igGameCenter as a result of somebody wanting it, and maybe if I'm lucky, Battle of LITS might get similar treatment. ]:P But regardless, if you have a BoardGameGeek account, thumbs up on that post would be useful.
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I think I'll make the deadline for signing up 120 hours from the time of this post.
Don't let "I'm not feeling up for a game today" stop you from signing up, people! You don't have to play today! You only have to play when you and you opponent can coordinate it. This is a slightly flexible tournament. ]:)
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The format of the tournament will be as follows:
For the first round, every player will play two games against every other player with the following settings: 30 minutes + 0 sec/move, 5x5 board, 4 in a row. The win-loss records of the players will determine which four players advance to the semifinals, where two pairs will play best 5 out of 9 matches with the settings 30 minutes + 0 sec/move, 4x4x4 board, 4 in a row, and then the finalists will play a best 5 out of 9 match with the settings 30 minutes + 0 sec/move, 7x7 board, 4 in a row.
Be sure to post links to the finished games when you're done; the games I just played against Jay are here:
http://www.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?aid=14770&sid=219412&code=CADIHO210
http://www.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?aid=14770&sid=219414&code=CADIHO210
I'll soon post a quick video tutorial on how to do certain things.
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And here's that video tutorial I promised: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j03GEcsLCec
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I have completed my games versus Trask:
http://www.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?aid=14770&sid=219445&code=SOZOXI533
http://www.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?aid=14770&sid=219450&code=SOZOXI533
Ack, this game's a brain-burner. I need to improve my skills. Also, hot dang we've been using over half of the time on our clocks.
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I have faced off against Kenku!
http://www.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?aid=14770&sid=219595&code=VALONU646
http://www.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?aid=14770&sid=219596&code=VALONU646
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Beat Trask 2-0
http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=219599&place=1&lang=en#219600
http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=219599&lang=en
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Beat Trask 2-0
http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=219599&place=1&lang=en#219600
http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=219599&lang=en
While it is trivial to compute how much time you actually used, and I will be accepting these as official results, other players should remember in future games to change the time control to 30 minutes + 0 sec/move (the default, as seen here, is 1 hour + 1 min/move).
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Jay vs Trask:
http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=219606&lang=en
http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=219606&lang=en#219608
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Draw with Jay
http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=219797&lang=en
http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=219797&place=1&lang=en#219798
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Me Vs Nacyl
http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=219983&place=2&lang=en
http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=219983&place=2&lang=en#219984
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mathgrant vs Nacyl: http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=219998&place=1&lang=en
Nacyl vs mathgrant: http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=219998&place=1&lang=en#219999
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VS Trask
round 1: http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=223379&code=BIDUNA563&lang=en Victor: Nacyl
round 2: http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=223379&code=BIDUNA563&lang=en#223380 Victor: Nacyl
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VS Jay
Round 1: http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=223403&code=MOGUTI431&lang=en Victor: Nacyl
Round 2: http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=223403&code=MOGUTI431&lang=en#223411 Victor: Nacyl
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Round 1 games:
Jay vs Kenku (0-1)
Jay vs mathgrant (0-1)
Jay vs Nacyl (0-1)
Jay vs Trask (1-0)
Kenku vs Jay (0-1)
Kenku vs mathgrant (0-1)
Kenku vs Nacyl (1-0)
Kenku vs Trask (1-0)
mathgrant vs Jay (1-0)
mathgrant vs Kenku (1-0)
mathgrant vs Nacyl (1-0)
mathgrant vs Trask (1-0)
Nacyl vs Jay (1-0)
Nacyl vs Kenku (0-1)
Nacyl vs mathgrant (0-1)
Nacyl vs Trask (1-0)
Trask vs Jay (0-1)
Trask vs Kenku (0-1)
Trask vs mathgrant (0-1)
Trask vs Nacyl (0-1)
Round 1 scores:
mathgrant (8-0)
Kenku (5-3)
Nacyl (4-4)
Jay (3-5)
Trask (0-8)
Unfortunately, Trask, as the number 5 seed, has been eliminated from the tournament. He says he had a blast, at least.
The match-ups for the semi-finals are as follows:
Jay vs mathgrant
Nacyl vs Kenku
These pairs of players should play best 5 out of 9 matches with the settings 30 minutes + 0 sec/move, 4x4x4 board, 4 in a row. For the first game of each match and every second game thereafter, the players whose names are in bold should start with the orange color, meaning they go second; for the second game and every second game after that, the players whose names are in bold should start with the brown color. (If you play a bunch of games in a row without getting up from your virtual seats, you will automatically be switched after every game.)
Don't forget that the orange player can swap colors after the first move! This gives the orange player a hypothetical advantage, because if the brown player makes a strong opening move, orange can steal that move; in practice, it generally forces the first player to make a move where it's as unclear as possible which color has an advantage.
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mathgrant vs Jay:
Game 1: http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=223412&place=2&lang=en
Game 2: http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=223412&place=2&lang=en#223413
Game 3: http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=223412&place=2&lang=en#223416
Current score: mathgrant 3-0 Jay
mathgrant starts as brown for game 4.
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This tourney has stagnated, for which I apologize severely.
mathgrant vs Jay:
Game 4: http://www.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?aid=14770&sid=234882&code=RATEMI268
Game 5: http://www.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?aid=14770&sid=234885&code=RATEMI268
Final result: mathgrant wins 5-0.
Kenku and Nacyl, please find time to play out your semi-final match as prescribed above. If you do not start doing so within, say, four weeks, then I will declare myself the winner and probably not have a Battle of LITS tourney. ]:P
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Kenku Vs Nacyl
Gm 1: http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=235984&place=0&lang=en#236002
Gm 2: http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=236009&lang=en
Gm 3: http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=235984&place=0&lang=en#236024
Kenku Leads 2 games to 1
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Kenku Vs Nacyl
Gm 1: http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=235984&place=0&lang=en#236002
Gm 2: http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=236009&lang=en
Gm 3: http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=235984&place=0&lang=en#236024
Kenku Leads 2 games to 1
Edit: Never mind, I was looking at a practice game instead of the actual game 1. My post-game analysis stands.
It looks to me like Kenku leads 3 games to 0. ];) It's worth pointing out, though, that if Nacyl had made the correct move at move 32 of game 1, he would have had a win; you made a blunder at move 31, which luckily didn't cost you the game.
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Kenku Vs. Nacyl
Gm 4: http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=239639&place=0&lang=en#239640
Gm 5: http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=239639&place=0&lang=en#239641
Gm 6: http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=239639&place=0&lang=en#239641
Gm 7: http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=239639&place=0&lang=en#239644
Gm 8: http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=239639&place=0&lang=en#239645
Kenku Wins 5-3
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The match-ups for the finals are as follows:
Kenku vs mathgrant
This pair of players should play best 5 out of 9 matches with the settings 30 minutes + 0 sec/move, 7x7 board, 4 in a row. For the first game of each match and every second game thereafter, the players whose name is in bold should start with the orange color, meaning I go second; for the second game and every second game after that, the player whose name is in bold should start with the brown color. (If you play a bunch of games in a row without getting up from your virtual seats, you will automatically be switched after every game.)
Don't forget that the orange player can swap colors after the first move! This gives the orange player a hypothetical advantage, because if the brown player makes a strong opening move, orange can steal that move; in practice, it generally forces the first player to make a move where it's as unclear as possible which color has an advantage.
A lot of copy-pasting, I know, but still. ]:)
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Game 1: http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=239909&lang=en
Game 2: http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=239910&lang=en
Game 3: http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=239911&lang=en
Game 4: http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=239912&lang=en
mathgrant leads 4-0. Scary.
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Game 5: http://gc1.iggamecenter.com/gm.php?sid=240176&place=0&lang=en
And with that, I am apparently the best Coffee player on this forum. That or I cheated. You decide.